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Education briefs.(University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar for engineering program )(University of Pittsburgh engineering students not attending the program)(womens in high level faculty positions)(Brief Article)
Pakistan's University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar will initiate an industrial engineering program as part of its objective to increase engineering enrollments. A new campus will be constructed in Peshawar to accommodate 200 students. * Thi Pakistan's University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar will initiate...
Best Fifty Women in Business: Laura J. Huch Kerckhoff
LAURA J. HUCH KERCKHOFF PRESIDENT CASTCON-STONE INC. CLINTON TOWNSHIP, BUTLER COUNTY Education: bachelor's degree in philosophy, University of Pittsburgh; Entrepreneurial Fellows Program, University of Pittsburgh Primary job function: overseeing operations and sales and marketing Company description: custom manufacturer of high-quality precast concrete structural elements Favorite quote: "it is not the...
Best Fifty Women in Business: Carolyn J. Kubik
CAROLYN J. KUBIK REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST/CO-OWNER REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SPECIALISTS INC. PENN HILLS, ALLEGHENY COUNTY Education: bachelor's degree in chemistry, University of Kansas; medical degree, George Washington University School of Medicine, cum laude; reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellowship, Magee-Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Primary job function: providing specialized care to...
Carleton, Gregory: Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia.(Book Review)
Carleton, Gregory Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press 266 pp., $34.95, ISBN 0-8229-4238-0 Publication Date: December 2004 Sexual Revolution in Bolshevik Russia combines a comprehensive literary and cultural history of sex and society in the Soviet Union during...
'Top 25 Women in Business in Northeast Pa.': Susan Scanland: Advisor to the elderly
Susan Scanland was researching Alzheimer's disease before most health care providers knew what it was, thanks to Joan McDowell, Ph.D., a geriatric professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work was 20 years ahead of her time," Scanland says. "Her passion for elderly patients, research and knowledge has inspired me...
Trustee Questions Lack of Women on University of Pittsburgh Board.
By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Bill Schackner, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
University of Pittsburgh's New Dean Studies Black Dating Game - Larry Davis - Brief Article
PITTSBURGH One of the nation's leading experts on the Black dating scene is now the University of Pittsburgh's newest academic dean. Dr. Larry Davis, a professor and researcher at Washington University in St. Louis, will head Pitt's School of Social Work beginning in August. Although he has published...
Imatron's Coronary Artery Scan Definitively Predicts Heart Disease in Women
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--BW HealthWire--Nov. 11, 1998-- University of Pittsburgh's "Healthy Women Study" Presented at American Heart Association Meeting and Featured on CBS Evening News With Dan Rather Imatron Inc. (Nasdaq: IMAT) announced today that a University of Pittsburgh study presented on November 10, 1998 at...
Tamoxifen trial resumes - National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel's Breast Cancer Prevention Trail - Brief Article
On Nov.9, the University of Pittsburgh resumed its enrollment of healthy women into the Breast Cancer Prevention Trial--the first of some 300 participating centers to do so. Directed by the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project NSABP, this study began in early 1992. But recruitment of new volunteers to...
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